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Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions
Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh to address a Workshop tomorrow on Good Governance Practices in a Pandemic for International Civil Servants
The two-day Workshop on COVID-19 is jointly organized by Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation , Ministry of External Affairs and National Centre for Good Governance , Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances
Dr. Jitendra Singh, Minister of State for Personnel, PG and Pensions will deliver the Inaugural Address at the ITEC-NCGG Two-day Workshop on COVID-19 – Good Governance Practices in a Pandemic through a webinar on June 18, 2020. The Conference would be attended by Chief of Staff, Sri Lanka Army Major General HJS Gunawardena, Senior Secretaries to Government from Bangladesh, Senior officials from Bhutan, Kenya, Morocco, Myanmar, Nepal, Oman, Somalia, Thailand, Tunisia, Tonga, Sudan and Uzbekistan and will be held on June 18-19, 2020.
The other Sessions on day 1, would cover State level best practices in Karnataka, Gujarat and Bihar and the District level best practices in Kerala, Telangana and Jammu & Kashmir. The Member Secretary of the National Disaster Management Authority Shri G.V.V Sarma would be chairing the second session and the former Cabinet Secretary, Shri Ajit Seth would be chairing the third session. On day two, the sessions would include Challenges for the Health sector and the Vande Bharat Abhiyan. Ms. Sujatha Rao, former Health Secretary, Government of India and CMD, Air India, Shri Rajiv Bansal would be chairing these sessions. The Valedictory Address would be delivered by Dr. Kshatrapati Shivaji, Secretary, DARPG and DPPW, Government of India. Senior officials from participating countries would contribute to the deliberations.
Shri V. Srinivas, Additional Secretary, DARPG and Director General, National Centre for Good Governance said that the Two-day Workshop was jointly conceptualized by the Ministry of External Affairs, Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances and National Centre for Good Governance with the objective of disseminating India’s good governance practices to ITEC countries.
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Ministry of Defence
Commanders’ Conference at Headquarters Training Command, IAF
Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria, PVSM AVSM VM ADC, Chief of the Air Staff  visited Headquarters Training Command Bengaluru to attend the Training Command Commanders’ Conference held on 28 & 29 July 21.
On arrival, the CAS was received by Air Marshal RD Mathur, PVSM AVSM VSM ADC, Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Training Command. CAS was presented with a Guard of Honour at the Headquarters.
In his address to the Commanders, CAS highlighted the need to be vigilant and remain poised to undertake all operational tasks assigned to the IAF. CAS commended the hard work put in by all the training academies and stations under Training Command for ensuring timely completion of training commitments, despite severe constraints placed due to second wave of COVID. He also lauded the professionalism shown by air warriors of the Command during conduct of the International event - Aero India 21 and the Chiefs’ of Air Staff Conclave held at Yelahanka during the month of February this year.
The CAS presented the ‘Best Stations’ trophies to the recipients and in his closing remarks urged the Commanders to continue their efforts towards building a strong foundation by grooming the young men and women in their formative years, since this forms the bedrock for enhancing the operational capability and transformation of the IAF.
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FIRST STANDARDS CLUB – INAUGURATED BY BUREAU OF INDIAN STANDARDS AT INSTITUTE OF HOTEL MANAGEMENT AND CATERING TECHNOLOGY AND APPLIED NUTRITION
Chennai Branch Office-1 of Bureau of Indian standards,Chennai inaugurated the first Standards club at the Institute of Hotel Management and Catering technology and Applied Nutrition on 3rd September 2021. The Standards club was inaugurated by Shri. U.S.P. Yadav, Deputy Director General of Southern Region, Bureau of Indian Standards.
Smt. R.Parimala, Principal i/c of Institute of Hotel Management and Catering technology and Applied Nutrition proposed the welcome address and expressed happiness in creation of this club in the institute. She advised the students to make best use of the club which was aimed to kindle the spirit of students towards standardization and quality.
Smt. G.Bhavani, Scientist ‘E’ & Head, Chennai branch office-1 outlined the program objectives and emphasized on the utility of standard clubs and Standardization activity as a whole as it would influence the outlook of the students in the aspects of quality consciousness as they are the future citizens of the nation. She requested for the active participation of the members.
Shri U.S.P.Yadav, Deputy Director General of Southern Region in his inaugural speech briefly illustrated about the needs of Standards and quality in day to day walks of life. He stated that the students of this institute would be the future managers and entrepreneurs of the food industry and stressed the need to acclimatize themselves with the concept of standardization through the standards clubs. He further emphasized that the standards club would indeed serve as a strong platform for gaining knowledge on standards. Students were encouraged to involve themselves in the various activities of the club and also spread the benefits of the same.
Shri Jose Charles, Scientist D, Chennai branch office-1 explained the students on the various activities of BIS and the related standards formulated by BIS on food and hospitality industry. He also demonstrated as to how the Indian Standards can be downloaded free of cost.Shri. G.Durga Prasad, Scientist ‘B’, Chennai branch office-1 made a lucid presentation on the salient features of Standards Club and its operational guidelines. Students evinced keen interest and registered in large numbers in the standards club. Various queries raised were satisfactorily clarified by BIS officials.
This is stated in a press release issued by the Shri H.Ajay Khanna, Deputy Director.
Ministry of Women and Child Development
ACC Appointment
The competent authority has approved assignment of additional charge of the post of Secretary, Ministry of Textiles to Shri Rabindra Panwar, IAS  Secretary, Ministry of Women and Child Development with immediate effect and till the appointment of a regular incumbent or until further orders whichever is earlier.
Ministry of Micro,Small & Medium Enterprises
ROLE OF WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS IN MSMEs
As per the National Sample Survey  73rdRound report , 19.5 per cent of the total unincorporated non-agricultural proprietary enterprises were owned by women, employing 22 to 27 million people. As per the report “Decoding Government Support to Women Entrepreneurs in India’ on NITI Aayog website, published in October 2022, women’s economic contribution in India accounts for 17% of the GDP.
There are no official reports on global ranking of Women entrepreneurship. However, a private study “Mastercard Index of Women Entrepreneurs 2021” ranks India at 57th position out of a total of 65 countries. The Index uses 12 indicators to create three components: women’s’ advancement outcomes; knowledge assets and financial access and entrepreneurial supporting conditions for constructing the Index.
The Report of the Expert Committee on Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, published by the Reserve Bank of India in June 2019 has identified access to credit as one of the major challenges faced by MSMEs, including women owned MSMEs.
To encourage entrepreneurship among women, the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises  implements various schemes. The Ministry implements Prime Minister’s Employment Generation Programme , which is a major credit-linked subsidy programme aimed at generating self-employment opportunities through establishment of micro-enterprises in the non-farm sector by helping traditional artisans and rural/urban unemployed youth. For beneficiaries belonging to special categories such as Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe/OBC /minorities/women, ex-serviceman, physically handicapped, NER, Hill and Border areas, etc., higher subsidy is given.
The Credit Guarantee Fund Trust for Micro, and Small Enterprises ,which was jointly set up by the Ministry of MSME, Government of India and Small Industries Development Bank of India to strengthen credit delivery system and to facilitate flow of credit to the MSE sector, create access to finance for unserved, under-served and underprivileged, making availability of finance from conventional lenders to new generation entrepreneurs, provides guarantee cover to collateral and/or third party guarantee free credit facilities extended by eligible Member Lending Institution [MLIs] to Micro and Small Enterprises. CGTMSE has increased the extent of guarantee coverage of credit to 85% for women entrepreneurs. As an additional concession to Women Entrepreneurs, CGTMSE has reduced the Annual Guarantee Fee by 10%.
The Ministry also implements several other schemes for promotion and development of MSMEs, including women owned MSMEs, namely, Micro and Small Enterprises Cluster Development Programme , Tool Rooms & Technology Centres, Scheme of Fund for Regeneration of Traditional Industries , Procurement and marketing Support Scheme, Entrepreneurship and Skill Development Programme  etc.
This information was given by Minister of State for Micro Small and Medium Enterprises, Shri Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma in a written reply to the Rajya Sabha.
Ministry of Education
Engineering education in local languages and mother tongue to be an instrument of empowerment -Shri Dharmendra Pradhan
Engineering education in local languages and mother tongue to be an instrument of empowerment, said Union Education Minister Shri Dharmendra Pradhan at the valedictory session of the 36th India Engineering Congress  here today.
Speaking on the occasion Shri Pradhan said that India has been a land of people with scientific temper & robust engineering capabilities and our civilisational history has scientific evidences of structural engineering, water management, maritime engineering, etc. He complimented IEI for furthering India’s engineering traditions and role of IEI in building an Aatmanirbhar Bharat.
The Minister stated that with the implementation of the visionary NEP 2020, we are integrating education with skills, taking a multidisciplinary approach and making skilling and apprenticeship a part of the main curriculum to prepare our youth for the 21st century.He further said that introduction of engineering education in local languages and mother tongue in line with the New Education Policy 2020 to be an instrument of empowerment of our youth and will further strengthen our engineering prowess.
Shri Pradhan stressed that ngineering education should not be restricted to awarding of degrees. We must collectively work towards removing language barriers in the learning process and building capacity of our engineering community.
He urged that IEI must endeavour in further strengthening India’s engineering capacity by innovating, knowledge sharing by its members and creating new paradigms of employability & entrepreneurship.
Ministry of Railways
‘AZADI KA AMRIT MAHOTSAV’ CELEBRATED AT PARK STREET METRO STATION
Kolkata, Date: 23.09.2021
Metro Railway has been observing ‘AZADI KA AMRIT MAHOTSAV’. As a part of this celebration, a drawing competition was organized on National Independence Movement and Elocutions/Speeches on Freedom Fighters of India at Park Street Metro station today .Shri S.K. Srivastava, Additional General Manager and Principal Chief Signal & Telecommunications Engineer inaugurated this programme by paying tribute to all the freedom fighters who made supreme sacrifices to earn the freedom for India.
The programme was started with the chanting of slokas of ‘GITA’ by two school children. Two short films on the freedom struggle were also shown in this programme. Eminent speakers like Shri Prithviraj Sen and five others spoke on this occasion and narrated the circumstances under which freedom fighters earned Independence from the British regime.
Students participated in the drawing competition. At the end of this competition, three best paintings were awarded 1st , 2nd and 3rd prizes. Two patriotic songs were presented to mark this occasion. Shri Sanjoy Seal, the first Motorman, associated with maiden “Metro Run” on 24.10.1984, shared his experience on this programme.
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Ministry of Defence
Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh visits Naval Air Station Oceana & Naval Station Norfolk during his US visit
Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh visited the Naval Air Station  Oceana and Naval Station Norfolk on December 17, 2019 during his visit to the United States of America. The visit highlighted the depth of the US-India defence partnership and the close ties between the Navies of the two countries.
During the visit to NAS Oceana, Raksha Mantri inspected a Boeing Mobile Flight Simulator, static display and F/A-18E flight demonstration. The Indian delegation also toured the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower , which is located at Naval Station Norfolk.
Shri Rajnath Singh was accompanied by Ambassador of India to the US Shri Harsh Vardhan Shringla, Defence Secretary Dr Ajay Kumar, other senior officials of the Government of India and active-duty military officers.
The Indian delegation was greeted by Dr James Anderson, who is performing the duties of Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy; Commander, Naval Air Force Atlantic Rear Adm. Roy Kelley; Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for International Programs Rear Adm. Francis Morley; and Commanding Officer, NAS Oceana Capt. John Hewitt.
Raksha Mantri said his visit reflected on the strong defence ties between India and the United States and hoped that the relations will further strengthen in the near future.
The US officials said they were honoured to host Shri Rajnath Singh and the Indian delegation to Naval Air Station Oceana and onboard USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, adding that the visit will further bolster the partnerships between the two countries.
India and the United States continue to build defence cooperation ties through military exercises, defence trade and official visits & exchanges, including this visit to the largest US naval base in the world.
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Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution
Centre invites Expression of Interest for appointment of Project Development Consultant for efficient disposal of consumer cases
The Department of Consumer Affairs is working towards efficient disposal of consumer cases.
In this regard, the Department issued an invitation for Expression of Interest  for appointment of Project Development Consultant  on 2nd September 2022.
The PDC shall be appointed to provide consultancy services for development of a technology for accurate speech recognition and machine learning system. The proposed project comprises of two verticals stated as follows- Vertical 1 is the Speech-to-text software. Speech-to-text is the need of the hour for the efficient disposal of consumer cases. There is an enormous pendency of cases at the district, state, and national level. The right of the consumers is adversely affected due to such huge pendency. The objective is to reduce the pendency at a consistent rate. Therefore, a speech-to-text software is required to accurately convert the dictation of the Commission President and Members into orders that can be readily uploaded after one review.
Vertical 2 is the Integration of machine learning within the software. Simply providing a speech-to-text software would not suffice to address the issue of efficient disposal of matters. A machine learning system shall be needed to be integrated within the speech-to-text software to inculcate the frequently used vocabulary in the Commissions for improving the accuracy of the software over time.
The finalised PDC would be given a sample recording of an actual order to facilitate the development of the software. Furthermore, a list of frequently used words and phrases shall also be provided to the shortlisted applicant for accurate recognition of legal terminologies.
Further details pertaining to terms of reference, scope of work, eligibility, guidelines to prepare and submit the EoI are given on https://consumeraffairs.nic.in/sites/default/files/file-uploads/latestnews/EoI_PDC.pdf. Last date to submit the EoI via e-mail on pk.tyagi13[at]nic[dot]in is 20th September 2022 by 1500 hours.
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Ministry of Finance
Cabinet approves creation of Post of Technical Member in SAT, Mumbai
The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved the proposal for creation of the Post of Technical Member in Securities Appellate Tribunal , Mumbai at the level of Secretary to the Government of India in the pay scale of Rs. 2,25,000/-  or Level 17 of the Pay Matrix as per the 7th Pay Commission.
Benefits:
Creation of the post will facilitate the creation of an additional bench in SAT, Mumbai thereby allowing speedy disposal of the increased number of appeals in SAT with respect to Securities and Exchanges Board of India, , Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India  and the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority , which will be much beneficial to investors, pensioners and the general public. The securities market and insurance sector are growing rapidly. With increase in the volume of trading in securities market, and clients in the insurance sector, it is likely that the grievances will also increase. Therefore, it is necessary that a speedy redressal system is established. It would ensure speedy disposal of appeal cases related to insurance, securities market and pension benefitting the general public.
Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation
Ministry of Water Resources invites entries for National Water Awards 2018
The awards will be given for 13 categories
Last date for submission of entries is 30th november 2018
In view of the importance of water resources management in India, the Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation has instituted National Water Awards with the objective to encourage all stakeholders to manage their water resources efficiently and create a water consciousness in the country.
The entries for National Water Awards 2018 are now invited in 13 categories which are - Best State, Best District, Best Village Panchayat, Best Municipal Corporation, Best research/innovation/adaptation of new technology for water conservation, Best educative/mass awareness efforts, Best TV show for promoting water conservation, Best Newspaper, Best School, Best Institution for successful campus water usage, Best Resident Welfare Association , Organizations for Best Religious/Recreational & Tourism Water Uses and Best Industry for industrial water conservation. Within the Best District category, three awards each will be given in North, South, East, West, North- East and aspirational district sub-categories for encouragement of officials at the district level. Also, at the district level, the entries could be submitted on three important themes of Ground Water Recharge, Revival of River and Rejuvenation/Creation of Water Bodies like lakes/ponds etc. Apart from Best State and Best District awards, cash prize of Rs. 2 lakh, Rs. 1.5 lakh and Rs. 1 lakh for Ist, IInd and IIIrd prize winners respectively will be given for all remaining 11 categories.
The objective of the awards is to encourage all stakeholders including Non-Governmental Organizations , Gram Panchayats, Urban Local Bodies, Water User Associations, Institutions, Corporate Sector, Individuals etc. for adopting innovative practices of ground water augmentation by rainwater harvesting and artificial recharge, promoting water use efficiency, recycling & reuse of water and creating awareness through people's participation in the targeted areas resulting into the sustainability of ground water resources development, adequate capacity building etc.
For further details and application form, the applicants may visit links- http://mowr.gov.in/national-water-awards-2018 and cgwb.gov.in. The Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation has also teamed up with MyGov to maximize the participation of all stakeholders. The applicants can submit their entries through MyGov  portal as well.
Ministry of Defence
Swachh Bharat Abhiyan car cum bike rally
(A Car cum Bike Rally from new Delhi to Thoise via Manali-Leh was flagged off by Air Marshal NJS Dhillon AVSM, Senior Air Staff Officer, HQ Western Air Command New Delhi on 10 Aug 18.The objective of the Rally is to promote Prime Minister’s noble mission of ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’.The Rally aims at spreading awareness amongst tourists and locals to maintain cleanliness in mountains and make them garbage free zones.
The rally team consisting of 12 Airwarriors is headed by Air Vice Marshal AK Singh AVSM VSM,Senior Officer in-charge Administration, HQ WAC. In a span of next 15 days, the team will traverse through Ambala,Manali,Jispa, Pang,Leh,Pangyong Tso,Thoise enroute to its final destination at Base Camp. The rally will culminate in Delhi on 24 Aug 18.
During its journey, the team will interact with the locals and tourists to highlight the importance of cleanliness and the need to protect the environment. They will also spread awareness about ‘Swachhta’ by distributing pamphlets, installing banners and placing dustbins at prominent tourist destinations en-route. The team plans to collect garbage for further disposal of the same at designated places. It is also planned to carry out ‘Swachhta’campaign at Leh city and Thoise in order to make the general public aware of the Mission.
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Ministry of Women and Child Development
Implementation Of Pmmvy
The Government is implementing Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana  with effect from 01.01.2017, across the country, including in the State of Uttar Pradesh. There is no ‘Ready to Eat Food Scheme’ being implemented in the State of Uttar Pradesh.
The funds under PMMVY are released to the State Governments. Thus, the Government does not maintain district-wise and Anganwadi Centre-wise amount of funds released under PMMVY. The year-wise details of funds released under PMMVY to the State of Uttar Pradesh are as under:
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Year
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Fund Released 
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2017-18
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336.17
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2018-19
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142.17
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2019-20
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405.56
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2020-21
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99.28
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2021-22 
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228.73
The Ministry has conveyed approval of the pan-India implementation of PMMVY to all States/Union Territories vide letter dated 19.05.2017. The Scheme Implementation Guidelines of PMMVY were issued on 01.09.2017.
As PMMVY scheme is being implemented through the State Governments/ UT Administrations, any complaints received regarding irregularities in implementation of the scheme are referred to the concerned State Governments/ UT Administrations for taking appropriate remedial action.
This information was given by the Union Minister of Women and Child Development, Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani, in a written reply in Lok Sabha today.